Özkan's lawyer, Omar Khamaysa, said she had left HaSharon prison near Natanya city accompanied by officials of Turkey's embassy in Tel Aviv. Özkan, 27, appeared at a hearing earlier in the day at the Ofer military court in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
On July 10, the court ruled to release Özkan on bail set at 15,000 Israeli shekels (roughly $4,110). Prosecutors lodged an objection, but it was dismissed by the court. Özkan is forbidden to leave the country and her passport has been confiscated by Israeli police.
She is not the first Turkish national to have been recently detained by terrorist Israeli authorities. In January, Osman Hazır, a 46-year-old Turkish citizen, was arrested for snapping a selfie at East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque while holding a Turkish flag. Last December, Israel arrested Abdullah Kızılırmak and Mehmet Gargılı after they quarreled with Israeli police, who had tried to bar them from entering the flashpoint holy site.